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others had nobly attended to around Yarmouth; but after nearly 

 rilling out man's size collecting boxes with blackberry canes, we were 

 attracted by a very handsome and distinct Antennaria on the dry 

 embankment, the foliage suggesting very large A. neodioiea but the 

 large heads with a strong crimson tinge suggestive of A. Parluiu. 

 This was something neither of us had ever seen growing, so we com- 

 pressed the blackberry specimens (and made a necessary screen over 

 them with large leaves) to make room for a fine lot of the Aniennaria, 

 and whenever we subsequently saw it, as we did several times and as 

 far east as Hants County, we were regularly struck with its great 

 beauty. The plant proves to be my own A. neodioiea, var. grandis, 

 a well marked extreme of a polymorphous species, which I had 

 known only through herbarium material; and, although in the field 

 it looks very distinct, I am unable to find a single character by which 

 it can be specifically separated. 



Striking out into the wet mossy bog we were interested to find 

 Voicntilla eanadensis, var. simplex of dry fields in New England and 

 the eastern States generally and the Checkerberry, Gaultheria pro- 

 cumbent, of our dry pastures and woods, growing in deep, wet sphag- 

 num along with the other bog plants, Andromeda glaueophylla, Kalmia 

 polifolia, Carex paupereula, C. pauciflora, Eriophorum angustifoliiim 

 and Vaccinium Oxycoeeus; but we were not wholly surprised, for 

 Long had been collecting the Potentilla in wet bogs about Yarmouth 

 and I had known Ganltheria as a wet-bog species on the Gasp6 Penin- 

 sula. 1 Crossing the bog, we soon came into carpets of the arctic 

 Crowberry, Etnpetrum nigrum (fig. 2), common enough at Yarmouth, 

 but here in the cold bog retaining its flowers unusually late into the 

 summer, still in such good condition that we had the satisfaction 

 for the first time in our experience of securing good staminate ma- 

 terial. And there close to Emjieirum, right in the middle of an 

 otherwise almost typical Hudsonian bog was the Inkberry! We 

 could hardly believe our eyes but there was the glossy-leaved Ilex 

 glabra (fig. 3), much smaller than on Cape Cod or in New Jersey, 

 Florida or Alabama, but healthy and just beginning to bloom. In 

 the spruce woods at the edge of the bog the High-bush Blueberries 

 were as perplexing as on Cape Cod or in New Jersey, but here there 

 were some forms which we had not previously met. 



After a day of work on the presses we were ready to try the country 

 southward, Long and Pease ("Longipes" of our field-notes) trying 



1 See Fernald, Rhodoba xiii. 97 (1911). 



